Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...third conference Mr. William Frederick Williams of the Harvard association will discuss the Need of Christian Teachers for the Government Schools of Japan...
...athletic committee evidently mean to place a graduate committee in charge of each of the college sports, so far as it is possible. We are led to discuss the advisability of this plan. Not a great many years ago it was hardly possible for a graduate to get a chance to advise the under-graduates on athletic questions,-graduates were not wanted, and were put aside so often that finally the students were left to themselves. The result everyone knows. Our teams lost all that years of previous work had gained; they have never recovered from the blow they received...
...least four years the College Conference Meetings, as they were once called, have been carried on with success. They have always proved satisfactory, and have attracted much attention. It was their purpose until this year, to give the students an opportunity to discuss among themselves and with the college authorities, all matters of interest to the University. In 1887 they were highly appreciated by the students, and in 1888 President Eliot opened the first meeting of the year with an address on "College Loyalties." At a later meeting Professor Norton spoke on "Interest in Literature in its Relation...
...paper. From one particular point of view it deserves praise, in that most of the contributions, both of fact and fiction, deal with college topics. If undergraduates would more closely follow this principle in their writings, they would avoid the criticism so frequently brought against them of attempting to discuss matters beyond their experience, not to say above their comprehension...
...lecture in Sever 11 tonight under the auspices of the Finance Club on "General Booth and English Poverty." Mr. Brooks is one of the instructors in Political Economy this year, and in addition to being a careful student of social subjects, is an interesting and attractive speaker. He will discuss the Salvation Army scheme for abolishing poverty in England, about which there has been so much talk in England and in this country. We hope that, notwithstanding the pressure of the examinations, he will have a large audience...